Europe has lived in a deep absentmindedness fourteen centuries since the fall of the Roman Empire until well inn the nineteenth century and has done it, dreaming that the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome were the basis of our history and our knowledge, while the powers were kneating a fat sauce to explain this mith to the people.
With the discoveries of Sir W. Jones on the apparent relationships of Latin and Greek to Sanskrit in a pre romantic environment, a Germanic “folk fever” began to search for racial and linguistic background who long yearned and in the last one hundred and seventy years has formed such a tangle of academic interests, publishers and even politicians and so many speeches, hypotheses and papers, which has come to recreate (if not invent) an entire estate of a kind of registry that they call “Indo-Germanic” roots ; roots that never existed, but that this “great cake” needs to stay inflated.
In this communication the outrages committed are denounced as much as the general abandonment of science and, above all, the systematic decision not to bear the Euskera in mind, the only language spoken before the dates for which they roam and the only way to explain placenames from the Azores to Kamthacka.